Public Education Foundation of Charlottesville-albemarle
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412158088
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4342205680
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,580
- Expenses
- $66,246
- Assets
- $165,472
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALDEN ENGLISH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PENNY HARRISON-LATHAM (EXECUTIVE DI)
- ALDEN ENGLISH (PRESIDENT)
- JANN BALMER (VICE PRESIDE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through our passion for public education, we support 17,000 students in albemarle county and charlottesville to grow and thrive in all academic disciplines by providing resources and opportunities with the help of the community and local businesses. We are a high-impact foundation committed to building programs that will transform education in our community and provide a model for school systems across the nation.
What it reported doing in 2025
A.the public education foundation of charlottesville-albemarle works to reach every student, teacher, and administrator in the public school system in two districts. We have produced more than 8 summer camp experiences for students which include stem learning and a fine arts program, dozens of in-class special projects, 4 field trips, more than 5 special game days at various grade levels, and 18 teacher innovation grants spanning 12 grades and 10 subject areas. We have impacted over 8,000 students since our inception and in 2025 our teacher grants supported aproximately 5,000 students and 250 teachers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.9%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 49.5%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.4%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.5; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.9% of revenue deployed · 49.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.